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Pedro, by Nimbos This morning, we took turns to say goodbye to Pedro, our grumpy, once-chonky cat, before the Dr escorted him away on one la...

Dr and me, about 2002 Twenty years ago this evening I took the Dr - though she was not then a Dr - to the pub to pitch a modest proposal: I ...

The latest issue of the Doctor Who: Chronicles (from the makers of  Doctor Who Magazine ) is focused on the year 2007, which in a weird, sc...

I've been meaning to get to this mystery novel for years. The Dr is a fan of Josephine Tey, and also of Nicola Upson's series of nov...

Entirely selfishly, I bought this for the Dr's birthday so that I could read it. It's the third in a trilogy, after Crooked Heart a...

The removals people said they'd be here between 8 and 8.30 this morning but arrived just after 7.30 while I was still drinking tea in be...

Out today, Doctor Who Magazine issue #535 includes my interview with Feifei Ruan , the illustrator and visual storyteller who created th...

It has taken months and been painfully more expensive than expected, but I now have a shed/office up and running, and my daughter no longer...

This morning, the Dr and I took our poorly, frail cat Shaggy to the vet one last time, where he was quietly put to sleep. It was quick. I...

Yesterday, the Dr was up early to get to BBC Broadcasting House, where she was a guest on Today and talked to John Humphrys about Differen...

On Monday, I was a guest on Radio 4's Front Row , where learned academic Fern Riddell and I discussed the legacy of HG Wells, who was ...

"Memento mori: grief, remembering, and living" is a piece by the Dr in the latest issue of the Lancet Psychiatry - March 2016...

Mostly for my own convenience, here is my schedule for the Nine Worlds convention from tomorrow, all in County C&D: Friday, 11:45 - ...

I'll be at some events to publicise my new book, The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who . 4 June, 6 pm I'll be signing the book a...

Early this morning, our eight day-old daughter died, peacefully and calmly, with me and the Dr holding on to her. What follows is mostly fo...

Episode 697: Rose First broadcast 7 pm, Saturday 26 March 2005 << back to 2004 Rose enters the TARDIS for the first time It&...

On 10 January, 49 BC, Julius Caesar marched his army south over a small river called the Rubicon - and the world changed. It was not the si...